1922
9937
DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARIES
24 October 1922

To the Secretaries on duty at sessions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Labour and Defence

You are instructed to monitor strictly that private conversations do not take place during sessions and to stop those who are conversing.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*

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NOTE TO V. I. MOLOTOV
28 October 1922

Comrade Molotov!

I ask you to read this, pay attention, and return it to me. Check whether gold has been sent to Armenia (11 million rubles, I believe, was decided)?

And what about other measures to aid the Armenians?

It is necessary to **accelerate and verify**.

I await your reply.

Lenin

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OUTLINE OF A SPEECH AT THE SESSION OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE*
October 1922

1) Vladivostok: Far Eastern Republic.
Japanese imperialism.
War and diplomacy.

2) Codes: on labour. Is it sufficient? Labour productivity.
Level of culture.

3) On land: consolidation and improvement, collection of experience.

4) and 5) On civil law and on judicial organization (the same—NB).

6) On local soviets. Provincial Executive Committees, etc. (the foundation of our entire constitution).

I will not continue the review of your work as systematically, since I think I have noted the essential points.

Only concerning our state apparatus. The recent census (1 October 1922)—243 thousand as against 231 thousand (28 August 1920)*.

Training, **improvement** of the apparatus, elevation of culture.

NOTES TO SECRETARIES
10011
October 1922

It seems you are intriguing against me?

Where are the replies to my notes**?

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Listed under my name

1) Thomson. "Organization of Labour" and 2) Labriola.

TO THE PETROGRAD TEXTILE WORKERS
3 November 1922

Dear comrades! I heartily thank you for the plaid sent to me—I find it excellent. I deeply regret that I was unable to receive Shorov.

Warmest greetings!

Your V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*The reference is to a census of Soviet employees in Moscow.*

**The note was written during one of the sessions of the Council of People's Commissars after V. I. Lenin's return to work in October 1922. Regarding this note, L. A. Fotieva reported: "Vladimir Ilyich retained his habit of exchanging notes during sessions even after his illness. After learning from doctors that such activity—engaging in several matters simultaneously—exhausts one many times more than normal work, we once attempted to prevent him from doing this by agreeing with colleagues that replies to Vladimir Ilyich's notes would be passed not to him personally but to the secretary, who would give them to Vladimir Ilyich after the session. Not receiving replies, Vladimir Ilyich wrote me this note."*